About Avatar: Rogue Benders:
I like this game. However it has some very irritating issues. Firstly, it is unclear exactly which choices use or will raise specific stats, more bothersome it isn’t clear what each stat does. The most opaque of these is Influence, at this point I’ve played through the game four times and have only managed to raise it above 1 once (I got it to 2 by the end of the game.) Now like I said I’m not entirely sure what this stat does, I seemed to be able to influence people sometimes and not other times, was that because of other stats? Would I have been more successful with higher influence? No clue. Others are pretty cut and dry, Combat makes you fight better, Ritual lets you use magic like effects. Survival and Sensitivity are less clear. Quick thinking I have no idea about. Restraint is an interesting one that has a cool narrative idea behind it but doesn’t seem to do much. Basically it seems like it is almost a currency, built up through actions that you can use to push against the influence of your god if you want or need to. Neat idea, but it only came up once in 4 playthroughs. The problem even with the clear cut ones is, it’s unclear what will improve them and the writing can imply due to its mythic nature that you are quite powerful but then you get a less favourable result, and it’s only through trial and error that you realize that there even was a better result.
